The Federal Register website used Alibaba's Qwen AI model for search functionality before removing it on September 18. The FBI had called the Chinese model "malicious," and Anthropic alleged it copied proprietary technology.
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US government website used AI search tool from China that FBI said copied Anthropic Reuters
The website of the Federal Register had the search tool using Alibaba’s Qwen model.
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The Federal Register website briefly used an open source Chinese AI search tool.
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